An Humble Inquiry Into the Rules of the Word of God: Concerning the Qualifications Requisite to a Complete Standing and Full Communion in the Visible Christian Church. By the Late Jonathan Edwards, ... With an Appendix by Mr. Foxcroft |
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... godliness ; and fince we fee nothing in their lives to make us deter- mine , that they have not had a proper effect on their hearts , we are obliged in charity to hope , that they are real faints , or gracious perfons , and to treat ...
... godliness ; and fince we fee nothing in their lives to make us deter- mine , that they have not had a proper effect on their hearts , we are obliged in charity to hope , that they are real faints , or gracious perfons , and to treat ...
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... godliness , " with good works . " The Apoftle is fpeaking of the women that were members of that great church of Ephefus , which Timothy for the prefent had the care of ; and he speaks of them as fuppofing that they all profeffed godliness ...
... godliness , " with good works . " The Apoftle is fpeaking of the women that were members of that great church of Ephefus , which Timothy for the prefent had the care of ; and he speaks of them as fuppofing that they all profeffed godliness ...
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... godliness , they cannot properly be called profeffing faints . Here it may be faid , that although no explicit and formal profeffion of thofe things which belong to true piety , be required of them ; yet there are many things they do ...
... godliness , they cannot properly be called profeffing faints . Here it may be faid , that although no explicit and formal profeffion of thofe things which belong to true piety , be required of them ; yet there are many things they do ...
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... godliness by any thing which ( by their efta- blished doctrine and cuftom ) an unregenerate man may and ought to fay and perform , knowing himself to be fo . For let the words and actions otherwife fignify what they will , yet that ...
... godliness by any thing which ( by their efta- blished doctrine and cuftom ) an unregenerate man may and ought to fay and perform , knowing himself to be fo . For let the words and actions otherwife fignify what they will , yet that ...
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... godliness ; and they are abundantly called by the name of faints in Scripture , undoubtedly because they were faints by pro- feffion , and in vifibility , and the acceptance of others ; yet this is not with any reference to faving ...
... godliness ; and they are abundantly called by the name of faints in Scripture , undoubtedly because they were faints by pro- feffion , and in vifibility , and the acceptance of others ; yet this is not with any reference to faving ...
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Page 91 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 90 - Christ : whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory : receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 66 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 111 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Page 28 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 36 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
Page 86 - For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself : for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord's.
Page 32 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 82 - Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Page 84 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.